There are words bandied about that are being misused - words like 'socialism,' words like 'communism,' words like 'fascism.'
Democracy is a word all public men use and none understand.
National security is like that vague term Executive privilege. Both terms have been abused; both concepts have been damaged; they've been used as shields for secrecy.
You can only have a war with another country. You can't have a war with bad temper or a war against paranoids.
A "classic" is a book that everybody praises but nobody has read
Next to ‘God’, ‘love’ is the word most mangled in every language.
'Disruption' is, at its core, a really powerful idea. Everyone hijacks the idea to do whatever they want now. It's the same way people hijacked the word 'paradigm' to justify lame things they're trying to sell to mankind.
I am tired of people using 'diverse' to mean 'of color.' That's not what that word means. 'Diversity' means people of all different races, all together - like a New York City subway.
It is a pet peeve of mine when people throw around arguments citing 'Fair Use' and yet fail to actually explain what a fair use argument actually is.